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The Substance 2024
Highest possible rating I could ever give something in this niche. Whole lotta something for sure. BUT!! Demi and Margaret are awesome, the pacing is so fun, the story and theme so fascinating, it’s directed brilliantly and shot with so much character. Really liked it
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Emilia Pérez 2024
Not as dog water as I thought it would be. I found it to be semi-watchable outside of the completely useless song interruptions. I’m a musical fan - but only 1-2 of these songs even provide any value or insight to the narrative and characters. And that would need to have an argument made for it
Outside of that, they are cringey, poorly choreographed, shockingly bad lyrics, uninspired music. They kill any momentum this could ever even hope to have…
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